noun:

• rise and fall; ups and downs; waxing and waning; prosperity and decline; vicissitudes - four character idiom

noun:

• ballistic-missile shoot-down order; order to shoot down a ballistic missile ➜ 破壊措置命令

noun:

• digging up, removing sprouts from, and replanting tubers (esp. of the sweet potato) to make for a bigger end product

noun:

• light used as a religious offering ➜ 御灯・神灯
• paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)

noun:

• miniature shrine with double doors (used to store important Buddhist items such as sutras, etc.)
• cabinet with double doors (used by the nobility to store books, etc.) ➜ 厨子棚
• (in Okinawa) carved and decorated stone container for storing the bones of one's ancestors ➜ 厨子甕

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to dish up; to fill (a bowl) with
• to pile up; to heap up; to fill up; to stack up
• to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to prescribe
• to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
• to mark out (e.g. scale); to graduate (e.g. thermometer)
• to exaggerate; to apply heavy makeup - slang

noun:

• simplicity and complexity; singular and plural; single and double; singles and doubles (in tennis)

conjunction:

• and; and then; thus; and now; and finally

suffix / particle:

• and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not

noun:

• (relative) length
• advantages and disadvantages; pluses and minuses; strong and weak points; merits and demerits

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to put to bed
• to lay down lengthwise; to put a thing on its side
• to set something aside unused; to let lie idle
• to ferment; to lay down (wine)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to eat oneself out of house and home; to eat up completely

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to pull up; to drag up; to lift up
• to increase; to raise (e.g. taxes)
• to withdraw; to leave; to pull out; to retire
• to promote (someone to a higher position)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to return home

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to expedite the schedule - archaism

noun:

• scarlet kadsura (Kadsura japonica) ➜ 実葛【さねかずら】
• white sash tied around the head, with ends hanging down and tucked into belt, worn in kyogen to indicate a female character being played by a man

noun:

• one person - esp. 一人
• alone; unmarried; solitary ［ひとり］ - esp. 独り

noun:

• wish; desire; hope
• prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes

expression / adverb:

• anything of; not one bit (with negative sentence)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hold in one's mouth

noun / ~する noun:

• support (e.g. of one's dependents); maintenance

noun:

• palm (of one's hand)

noun / ~の noun:

• bone marrow; medulla
• true spirit; one's mind

noun:

• Japanese national (esp. one living overseas) ➜ 外人【がいじん】
• fellow countryman

adjectival noun:

• independent; autonomous; voluntary; of one's own initiative

noun:

• ryotei; traditional Japanese restaurant (esp. a luxurious one)

noun / ~する noun:

• racking one's brains; worrying oneself; being anxious